(Sorry for minimal posting; home inspection today. Everything looks good! We appear to be GO FOR HOUSE.)
Penny Arcade on the subject of Mixed Martial Arts:
I can honestly say I never had an Atari 2600, and therefore I never played Adventure. Thank God for the internets! Although I can’t defeat that last bloody duck.
UPDATE: I beat that last bloody duck. Woooooo
I haven’t updated everyone on the status of my gut, so here’s the lowdown: still fat. Lost 19 pounds in a little over 5 weeks, though, so I guess I’m doing something right (not eating; occasionally running until I throw up).
I’d like to lose about 38 more. That’s gonna be tough; even in 2004, when I was about as skinny as I’ve been since high school, I bottomed out at around 225. Getting down to 215 would make me positively hott, methinks, but it’s gonna be really, really hard. Particularly since we have a long vacation scheduled in a month or two. I’m going to try and run or ride every day while I’m beachin’, but who knows. I highly doubt I’ll be paying much attention to diet.
Annoyingly, I ha’en’t had much time to exercise, because we’ve been so busy; my usual lunch hour spent running through the woods or lifting weights hasn’t happened in nearly two weeks. You might be wondering what’s kept us so busy, and to that I reply: we bought a house. It was all very quick, mostly because we’d been admiring the house from afar for literally years, it came back on the market, and we found out somebody else had put an offer in. We overbid those folks and got it. Home inspection is tomorrow, after which I should be able to post a few photos.
Now I just have to be able to, you know, pay for it. And sell our current dive, which is really what’s keeping us busy; we’re throwing stuff into storage and doing Xtreme Kleening 2009. There’s a little bit of touch-up painting to be done, plus the basement where Veronicat (aka The Cheat) has made her litterbox, i.e. the entire basement floor. That’s the biggie; we won’t even let our realtor come look at the house until we get the basement cleaned up. But keeping the basement clean requires keeping The Cheat from peeing and pooping on it, which unfortunately for her means she becomes an outside kitty. So tonight I’m getting her vaccinations up-to-date, we’ll be getting her groomed, finding her some kind of shelter, and then her ass is on the streets, son. (Well; the fenced in backyard. I’m not letting her roam free, for heaven’s sake.)
So that’s what be happ’nin’. More updates on the subject to come.
People sometimes ask me, “Hey, didn’t you use to be a Libertarian? What happened with that?” (Okay, nobody asks me that. Anybody who knows I once subscribed to Libertarian principles is probably unaware I’ve changed. So I should probably say: I no longer consider myself a Libertarian, but a Liberal, albeit with certain caveats, such as the fact that I think people should still be allowed to pack heat.)
This article taking Governor Palin to task on cap-and-trade doesn’t really have much to do with Libertarianism, except for one excerpt:
My decision to drive creates traffic that imposes a cost on society. A company’s decision to fish in the ocean imposes a cost on the world’s common stock of fisheries. A banker’s decision to take on a huge amount of risk creates danger for the economy as a whole. The problem is that none of these private actors adequately bears the cost of their decisions.
The short version of why I no longer consider myself to be Libertarian is that “Every man for himself” doesn’t seem like particularly good public policy.
New auto-tuning of the news! I am excited. Really! Feel my nipples!
A couple questions surprised me! I did get one lucky guess.
Score: 83% (10 out of 12)
Why am I posting pointless stuff? Because as busy as yesterday was, today is even crazier. Look forward to more dreck from matthearn.com!
(Oops: forgot the tip-o-teh-hatz0rz to the Honest Hypocrite, who got the same quiz score as I and is therefore my equal in Moe Szyslak knowledge.)
Things are insanely busy at the moment; I’m working from home while a guy repairs our HVAC system which had asplode. In the meantime, here is a picture of pretty ladies.
Here’s something scary, for those of us who steadfastly refuse to name our children to match the current lame trends.
A study by David Kalist (also registered at IDEAS) and Daniel Lee of Shippensburg University seems to indicate that unusual or uncommon names are correlated with increases in juvenile delinquency.
“Josephine” was only the 208th most popular girl name last year! I’m in trouble. Charles was 63rd; maybe he’ll keep her out of trouble.
Today’s another crazy day (again, details to come later), so posting may be a bit spare; let’s start the day the way I always should but for various technical and legal reasons cannot: with Mr. Carlos Ray Norris.
You know what’s messed up? Chucky up there is nearly 70 years old. I was like whaaaaaaaaaaa?
